Leave our police alone

Northumberland News

To the editor:

Oh my God, here we go again. We just went through a wild time a couple of months ago to keep our local people in blue -- police that is -- and now the bench sitters at town hall are at it again. Now they want to disband and close down the dispatch at the local police office and contract it out to try and save money. If they are so gung-ho about saving money why don't they cut their own salaries.

I will never understand why, when people get elected by the people for the people they never listen to the people. Leave our police alone and let them do their job. Every time you bench sitters start some sort of uproar it always has something to do with our police and every time you do this it is so upsetting for them, they can't give 100 per cent to their job.

Policing is not a part-time job like the one you have and the people who look after the dispatch do a good job because they know the people and the town. Contracting it out will only cause delays in response time as well as numerous location errors.